[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - net neutrality

[Chase Bolen]

That only works for the minority of people who:
1) have a choice of ISPs
2) can afford it
3) understand what an SLA is

Are the vast majority of Americans essentially doomed to a mickey mouse
internet?
On Sep 23, 2011 12:56 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
http://news.yahoo.com/u-net-neutrality-rules-effect-november-160334496.html
>> The game is pretty simple.  The little
>> people want the Internet to be content
>> neutral.
>
> So do network operators, oddly enough.
>
>> Internet providers don't.
>
> AT&T and Comcast, no; they have divisions whose profit motives are add
> odds with each other; it doesn't do Comcast's ISP side any good to
> block Netflix for their customers, and it doesn't do Comcast's video
> services side any good to allow a competing service down pipes the
> company already owns.
>
>> Does anyone see anything more to the issue
>> than that?  i.e., anything that doesn't simply
>> mean the providers want to throw more ads
>> at you, and decide just what you look at?
>> That I can tell, the providers still have the
>> last word on all this.  The little people can
>> switch providers, but their control ends there.
>
> Don't like it? Pay to get an internet connection from an ISP whose
> only interest is moving data around. Or pay for an internet connection
> with an SLA. Don't get a cheap, subsidized* internet connection and
> then complain about limitations placed on that connections because
> they conflict with the source of the subsidy.
>
> * VOIP, VOD, television, ads, etc.
>
> There's no such thing as a free lunch; there's only paid lunch or stolen
lunch.
>
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